Clothesline device



Oct. 26, 1948.

S. KRONHAUS CLOTHESLINE DEVICE Filed Nov. 29. 1946 FIG. I.

INVENTOR SEMEN KRONHAUS AT TORNEYS Patented Oct. 26, 1948 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE 2,452,246 cLo'rnEsLiNn DEVICE Semen Kronhaus, Los Angeles, Calif. Application November 29, 1946, Serial No. 712,767

2 Claims. 1

This invention has to do with improvements in clothes lines or laundry driers upon which wet laundry may be hung to dry and has as one of its principal objects the provision of a clothes line device which is adjustable and which may be easily lowered for purposes of hanging laun dry thereon and then raised after the laundry is in place. As is well known, a long standing objection to clothes line devices of the portable type has been that they are of substantially fixed height and, to hang laundry thereon one has to stretch and assume tiring and uncomfortable positions. My invention overcomes those disadvantages.

It is also an object of the invention to provide a clothes line device which is portable and which may be collapsed so as to occupy a minimum of storage space.

.A further object of the invention is to provide a clothes line device which is so designed and arranged as to be capable of being commercially manufactured with maximum economy.

Still further objects and corresponding advantages of the invention will appear from the following description of a presently preferred embodiment thereof, for which purpose I shall refer to the accompanying drawings wherein:

Fig. 1 is an elevational view; and

Figs. 2, 3 and 4 are sections taken, respectively, on the lines 22, 33, 4-4 of Fig. 1.

Referring now to the drawings the particular embodiment of my invention therein illustrated employs a base 5 which preferably consists of a block of concrete having an upwardly opening central hole 6 in which may be mounted a sleeve 1. Any other base of suitable weight may be used. In some cases, the base 5 may be dispensed with and the sleeve merely embedded in the ground. The base presents a fiat top surface So upon which a laundry hamper may be placed while the user is removing wet wash therefrom and hanging it upon the clothes line now to be described.

Removably fitted in the sleeve 7 there is a post 9 which may be of any desired height and may be made of metal tubing. The post consists of tubing lengths 9a. 9b, the latter telescopically fitting in the lower length 9a and being held in position as by a set screw 90.

Clampecl about the post at longitudinally spaced points towards the top end thereof I provide a pair of cross arms I0, I i (Fig. 3). Each of these cross arms comprises two opposed metal strips Illa, lob, Ha, lib secured to the posts by a cross pin I5 and between the outer ends of 2 a each arm I pivotally mount, by a pin l6, :3. met rod ll, iii. each of -whichrods has its lower or innerend looped about the pin l6 so that the rod may swing relative to the cross arm in a plane longitudinally of the post. The outer ends of each pair of rods l1, l8 are looped at 20 and the outer end of each lower rod I! is suspended from the outer end of its overhanging upper arm I8 by means of a wire or cord 2|. It will be seen that the rods I 1, l8, which constitute the members upon which the wet wash may be pinned for drying, may be swung about the pivot 15 between the full and dotted line positions of Fig. 1. The rods are held against movement in a direction circumferentially of the ,post by the sides of the plates constituting the cross arms.

For the'purpose of raising and lowering the rods El and I8 and retaining them in adjusted position I provide a pair of flexible cables 25, 26.

Adjacent the top end of the post I provide a third, relatively longer, cross arm 30 (Fig. 2) which consists of two opposed metal strips 30a, 30b secured to the post by cross pin 3| and having rotatably mounted therebetween, on pins 32, sheaves 33, two on each side of the post.

Jcurnaled in a transverse hole 35 through the post adjacent the lower end thereof, whereby to be in position for convenient access, I provide a spindle 36 on one end of which I secure a spool 3! and on the other end of which I secure a hand wheel 38.

The top ends of the cables 25, 26 are secured, respectively, to the topmost rods i8 and thence pass over the sheaves 33 and are wound at their lower ends about the spool 31. Thus to lower therods ll, N3 the wheel 38 is rotated in one direction and to raise said rods the wheel is rotated in the reverse direction.

For purposes of locking the wheel in any desired position, I provide through the hand Wheel a row of circumferentially spaced transverse holes 39 and provide through the post, in position to register with either of the holes 39 upon rotation of the hand wheel, a transverse hole 40. A locking pin 4| is fitted through the selected hole 39 and in the hole 40 to prevent the wheel and spindle from rotating relativeto the post.

While I have shown We rods l1, [8 at diametrically opposite sides of the post, it will be apparent that by providing additional cross arms such as ill, I i any desired number of rods may be added, their outer ends being suspended from the upper rods.

Where unusually heavy laundry loads are imposed upon the rods ll, l8, those rods may need From theforegoing descripti'ondt will -be apparent that thief-entire devi ce' is readily move'able from one place to another and that the laundry supporting rods may be readily lowered into a posi tion convenient for attaching the laundry to the rods and then swung upwardly into the-desired position, in which position they may loelv locked by inserting locking pin 4| in the manner described.

Also it may be stored in a minimum of spaceby a telescoping post portion to in portion 9a and lowering the clothes supporting members.

Icla'im! 1. A ""cloth'e's 'line' device' -comp'r'ising a post-" adaptedfto be supported in "upright position; a

plur-alityof vertically spaced clothes hanging rods 3 projecting laterally from diametrically oppo it sides of and pivotally connected attheir innerends'to the post for'swinging movement in a plane longitudinally of the post, means connecting the outer 'en'ds'of the respective rods to'the outer end ofeachadj-acentrodja crossbar adjacent the top end of the post; sheave me'an's rotatably car-' ried hy the cross bar, 'cablesea'ch secured at one end-to'the topmost of the said'rodsj spindle means rotatably carried-by the lower'end portion of the post and having the other end portions of 'the cables wound thereabout, means for rotating" the" rotatably carriedspindle means, and means for locking the spindle means against rotation.

2. A clothes line device comprising a post adapted to he supported in upright position, a plurality of vertically spaced clothes hanging rods projecting laterally from diametrically opposite sides of and pivotally connected at their inner ends to the post for swinging movement in a plane longitudinally Ofwthe post,---means connecting the outer ends of therespective rods to the-outer end of each adjacent rod, a cross bar adjacent the rtop end of the post, sheave means rotatahly carried by the cross bar, cables each secured at one en'd to the topmost of the said rods, spindle means by the lower end portion of the post and having the other end portions of the cableswound th'ereabout, a hand wheel fixed to the spindle for rotating the latter, and means for releasably locking the hand wheel against rotation relative to the post.

SEMEN KRONI-IAUSI REFERENCES CITED The following references are ofrecord in the file of this patent:'

UNITED STATES PATENTS Baeum'le May'25, 1915' 

